I have tried several times to install this update without success. I have downloaded and tried to install manually. I have logged on as administrator and tried to install from the manual download. There is no error code, just "The installation of this package failed." Are others having the same trouble? Any ideas how to fix this?Windows XP Professional Version 2002 (SP3)1 person needs an answerI do too

I have tried several times to install this update without success. I have downloaded and tried to install manually. I have logged on as administrator and tried to install from the manual download. There is no error code, just "The installation of this package failed." Are others having the same trouble? Any ideas how to fix this?Windows XP Professional Version 2002 (SP3)==========================Maybe the following article would be worth a look...it offers some support options:MS10-036: Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2007: June 8, 2010http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982158Volunteer J - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience - Notice_This is not tech support_I am a volunteer - Solutions that work for me may not work for you - ***Proceed at your own risk***

I fail to see how the "description of the update" link posted above would in any way remotely assist the original poster of this problem. As the original poster said, he's ALREADY downloaded the patch, and it is failing to install. That would seem to indicate to me that he's already seen that page and it was no help.I am encountering the identical issue. You run the patch file, and it exits almost immediately (within 1/2 second) with a generic "the installation of this package failed" error. As is typical with Microsoft's crappy updates (and, yes, as an IT manager who manages over 3,000 systems for 250 different home offices and small businesses, I can say without a doubt that MANY of them are totally crappy, do not properly install, don't script properly, cause more problems than they resolve, etc.), there is absolutely no help or messaging as to WHY it failed---just "sorry, click [OK] to exit" type stuff.When is Microsoft going to actually give end users and in particular IT managers what they need? While I love Windows 7, we don't need more glamorous operating systems (XP still does everything just about anyone needs). For 10 years, we have needed patches that CONSISTENTLY give VERY DETAILED reasons why they couldn't run (ex: "Attempted to write to following [...] registry key, couldn't write, security settings prevent user "username" from writing to this key") instead of goofy "it didn't work" errors like the one this crappy patch is barfing up.

would it help if power point 2007 was removed then re-installed?

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